EMR and HL7 within EDIConnect

In October, we went over two healthcare EDI transactions: EDI 834 and 837. This week, we’ll take a look at two more healthcare facets of EDIConnect: the ability to handle EMRs and compliance with HL7.

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)

Electronic medical records (EMRs) are electronic records generated and maintained by hospitals and healthcare organizations. They are a vast improvement over paper records. They allow more than one person to use a patient’s chart, are better organized, eliminate illegible handwriting, and allow storage of more information.

The demand for healthcare systems with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) interfaces is rising. This increase is due to many factors, including the growing adoption of EMR systems and emerging clinical healthcare data standards such as HL7.

Health Level-7

Health Level-7(HL7) refers to a set of international standards for software applications used by healthcare providers for clinical and administrative transaction data. The HL7 standards are produced by the Health Level Seven International, an international standards organization, and are adopted by other standards issuing bodies such as American National Standards Institute and International Organization for Standardization.

HL7 International specifies a number of flexible standards, rules, and procedures for healthcare systems used by hospitals and other healthcare provider organizations to communicate with each other. This helps information to be shared and processed in a uniform and consistent manner and allow hospitals and healthcare organizations to easily share clinical information.

Electronic data interchange (EDI) format also plays a very important role with EMR files and records. It helps to share clinical and other administrative data and medical records across different healthcare systems as well as individuals. Patients can also access their medical records through internet, allowing them to stay well-informed about their health status and ongoing medical treatments.

EDIConnect

Astera Software provides a complete solution for handing documents such as EMR and many others such EDI documents. EDIConnect offers a user friendly and intuitive user interface to accurately and efficiently handle bi-directional EDI data integration. It is scalable and powerful enough to fulfill entire EDI transaction processes.

EDIConnect Benefits:

Handles electronic medical records and HL7 documents.

Powerful and scalable

Fast, comprehensive and accurate data exchange

Easy to use graphical interface for both technical and business users.